He shot her because he chose to. He shot her because he wanted to. He shot her because he could get away with it, he shot her because his actions would be sanctioned and justified by the state. There’s another word for all of that and it’s fascism.

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

I mean this without scold or judgement, and simply as a statement of what is - one reason the heinous murder of Renee Good is such a terrifying suckerpunch to us white people is in how her killing represents a state terror that is normally visited on Black communities breaking containment in America

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘…the dumbest collective voting decision ever made.’ See also: Brexit.

I genuinely didn’t think I’d see the day when any country - let alone the US - would invade another country and kidnap its leader, whilst ruminating on taking over several more (see: Gaza, Greenland…), and the world would go, ‘meh.’ It is insane I sometimes worry about how well I’m doing my job.

Wish I could internalize this

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

I loved the Stranger Things finale. So there,

There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship

We are watching Paddington 2 and the children have an important question: if you escape from prison and are then found innocent of the original crime, are you prosecuted? Important social justice / bear issue. @goodlawproject.org?

I've been off social media a lot, for me, this afternoon, but catching up and what the actual fuck is wrong with some people. You can absolutely condemn the Israeli government for its genocide in Gaza. If you use that in any way shape or form to minimise the attack in Sydney you need serious help.

A reminder that the man who tackled one of the gunmen in an attempt to save lives was Ahmed Al Ahmed. This was an anti-semitic terror attack. It is not an excuse for the likes of Farage to stoke more division. It's exactly why we need less of it. news.sky.com/story/hero-w...

Hillary Clinton sassing off "young Jewish Americans who don't know their own history" in a way that is disgustingly antisemitic. "They say from the river to the sea...they don't even know which river and which sea!" Fuck off.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Quite.

All Tories:

The fact that even a rich, famous actor can’t afford cancer treatment in the US is unimaginably fucked up. We HAVE to save our NHS.

The same British Airways who the Tories were trying to use to deport refugee and migrant people to Rwanda? This you, British Airways? www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

There are too many racist people on my television these days.

'there are too many black people on my television these days' is about as far from legitimate as a concern can be

Really enjoyed the view on my train journey with South West Trains today. Slow hand clap.

and by ‘review’ we don’t mean ‘set up a sham inquiry to try and claim all neurodivergence is overdiagnosed to as to kick this down the road another 30 years’, fyi

What are we becoming?!

Really sick of the narrative that the left have abandoned Labour. Labour - quite clearly - abandoned the left.

I really couldn’t care less what titles the man does or doesn’t have (also, obviously: abolish all titles), are we really going to pretend that’s a meaningful consequence?

The British government has lost its attempt to stop Palestine Action fighting against the decision to ban it as a terrorist organisation by way of a full High Court judicial review The Court of Appeal also granted permission for Palestine Action to bring its challenge on wider legal grounds

This clip actually breaks my heart a little. I’m not really one for meeting bigotry in the middle but how many Garys have been told they’re stupid, told it so many times they believe it and will listen to people like Farage who can then easily tell them what to think?

Concerned about what the peace means for Palestinians? Concerned whether there will be peace at all? Concerned about accountability for the Israeli genocide? Shabana Mahmood has this to say to you.

I have appified my fluid intake and I am ashamed to say it is working.

Word.

Just extraordinary to witness this nature-hating government sabotaging Labour’s own legacy. And for absolutely no reason: nature protection isn’t blocking development - it’s a necessary prerequisite for it (& for everything else, come to that…)

Let's make hope normal again. youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...

She is the best of us.

it literally isn’t though

@kirstysedgman.bsky.social 12 year old picked up your book which was lying next to me. ‘What’s this about?’ I told her. She started reading. She kept reading…

If you are not very, very frightened by this then you are not paying attention www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Just imagine if those parents put those fees into their local state school. The music teachers, the arts programmes, the SENCOS they could fund. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

If you want to know what actual racism looks like, what conflating a whole ethnicity and culture with the actions of a foreign government look like, then look no further than Starmer using the horrific event in Manchester to attack the pro-Palestine marches. The absolute shame.

Mikeno which in a historic breakthrough, became the first civilian vessel to successfully break the naval blockade and enter Gaza’s territorial waters !

To support the Global Sumud Flotilla, 45 civilian boats set sail this morning from Arsuz port in Hatay, Turkiye, into the Mediterranean, carrying Palestinian and Turkish flags.

Israeli forces intercept and board several boats that were part of the Global Sumud Flotilla aiming to deliver aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to camera footage from the group.

Livestream of Global Sumud Flotilla as they approach Gaza. Watch & share: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

Israeli forces have boarded Global Sumud Flotilla vessels. Communication is cut and the status of those on board is unknown. Immediate international action is needed for their safety and release 🧵119/...⤵️

The Global Sumud Flotilla website is down now apparently but you can still watch the livestream on YouTube:

The Italian unions. My heart.

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

This slightly snarky review is the only write up I can find this morning for a really incredible evening of music, politics and solidarity. We can side eye all we want at celebrity but raising your voice matters. Coming together matters. Giving a platform to people who speak from Palestine matters.